Little Sisters of the Poor

Obamacare

Kennedy bill would bar religious exemption claims

WASHINGTON – Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III on Wednesday proposed "clarifying" the Religious Freedom Act in a way that supporters say will prevent organizations, business owners and other individuals from using it to shield discrimination against others on the basis of religious beliefs. Business owners who

Abortion

Obamacare punt by high court gives hope to both sides

WASHINGTON – Both Republicans and Democrats support a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to send back to appeals courts cases challenging Obamacare mandates that require coverage of contraception based on religious grounds, asking the panels to try to find compromise solutions to the disputes. At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

Abortion

Zubik: A curse and a blessing

To the surprise of no one who has paid any attention to the litigation, the post-Scalia Supreme Court this week resolved the challenges brought by religious groups to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate without issuing a sweeping decision one way or the other. Instead, the Supreme Court's decision

Abortion

Supreme Court passes on ruling in Little Sisters case

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Supreme Court today punted the question of whether the government can compel nuns, priests, and faith-based schools to provide employees with contraceptive coverage, even if they are bound by religious teachings that forbid certain forms of birth control. [perfectpullquote align="full" cite=""

SCOTUS

Supreme Court requests additional briefing on key Obamacare case

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Less than a week after an order of Catholic nuns asked the U.S. Supreme Court for a religious exemption to the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act (also known as "Obamacare"), the Court took the unusual step of asking for additional briefing, telling

Catholic

Justices divided over Little Sisters case on contraception

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a new challenge to President Barack Obama's health care law, the Supreme Court appeared deeply and evenly divided Wednesday over the arrangement devised by the administration to spare faith-based groups from having to pay for birth control for women covered under their health plans. Ninety

Catholic

Supreme Court to hear Little Sisters of the Poor

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After months of waiting, the international Catholic charity organization Little Sisters of the Poor will have their day in the U.S. Supreme Court, but the case will go forward without one of the Court's strongest defenders of religious liberty – Justice Antonin Scalia, who died

Massachusetts

UMass prof defends nuns in Obamacare case before high court

BOSTON – An order of Catholic nuns that has balked at complying with a federal mandate forcing it to buy insurance that covers medical services and drugs that go against the contraception and abortion got some support from a University of Massachusetts Law School professor, who has weighed in before the